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Victoria paying more than $1m a day to keep unsentenced prisoners in jail

Despite steep rise in number of prisoners on remand, Andrews government hasn’t reviewed bail reforms

The Guardian - AU

Five common mistakes that make your house a target for thieves, according to an ex burglar

Lennox Rodgers spent 21 years in prison and is now a security expert

Manchester Evening News

Man charged with murdering Lilia Valutyte, 9, 'stabbed' in prison attack

Deividas Skebas, 22, was reportedly attacked with a makeshift "shank" after being set upon by a group of inmates at HMP Wakefield.

Daily Record

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Paedophile and former RTE producer Kieran Creaven in prison job alongside killer making books in Braille

A source said Creaven is keeping his head down at work learning how to produce books and periodicals for the blind.

Irish Mirror

Sources fear riots and more deaths at Mountjoy Prison as tensions reach boiling point

A source told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “Tensions are at an all-time high and getting worse.

Irish Mirror

Bali bombmaker Umar Patek records on-camera interview from Indonesian jail

Facing imminent parole, convicted Bali bombmaker Umar Patek records an extraordinary on-camera interview from an Indonesian jail about his involvement in the 2002 nightclub bombings.

ABC News

Paedophile Kieran Creavan working in prison's Braille workshop

The former RTE producer was moved to Arbour Hill prison over bullying issues

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What’s the real story behind James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s violent murder?

Recent revelations have only fed speculation that some form of plot lay behind the gangster’s brutal demise in prison

The Guardian - US

'I was pregnant in prison with child killers and was terrified of giving birth in my cell'

"Just being in that cell, what a thing to have to say my child when she's grown up, 'oh yeah you were born in a cell'"

Manchester Evening News

The criminals convicted of drug related offences in the North East

A number of defendants have recently been convicted of drug offences at courts across the North East

Chronicle Live

Thousands in Argentina take to streets to defend embattled vice president

Thousands of followers of Argentina's former president and current Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took to the streets in her defense Saturday, days after two prosecutors called for a 12-year prison sentence and a ban on public office for alleged corruption during her government.

Reuters

Evil dad of boy who lost legs after being tortured has prison release BLOCKED

Anthony Smith, who inflicted terrible injuries on his son Tony Hudgell, was due to be released after half his 10-year jail sentence, but Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has finally blocked the move

Daily Mirror

Murderer who stabbed man over £5.99 Lego set threatened to blow up flat block

Thomas Carl Hughes, who has paranoid schizophrenia, told officers that the explosives would be "activated" if they tried to force their way into his flat.

Daily Record

At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt

A few states have been amending or repealing “pay-to-stay” laws that require former prisoners to reimburse states for the cost of their jail stays, sometimes at daily rates exceeding what they would have paid to stay in a luxury hotel

The Independent UK

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Daily Mirror

Anthony Joshua was living "prison lifestyle" before Oleksandr Usyk fight

Joshua suffered a second consecutive defeat to Usyk last weekend in Saudi Arabia, with a rebuild now needed for the former two-time heavyweight champion who missed out on a shot at Tyson Fury

Asharq Al-Awsat

Palestinian Prisoners Prepare for Mass Hunger Strike

The Palestinian Prisoner Club (PPC) and the Commission of Detainees Affairs (CDA) said Friday that tension prevailed among prisoners in Israeli jails after the administration doubled solitary confinement of Palestinians and deployed large numbers of suppression units on the entrances of various prisons. The two organizations confirmed that the Palestinian…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Mysterious Virus' Threatens Lebanese Prisons

The Lebanese government asked the Ministry of Interior to “conduct an immediate and urgent investigation” into allegations that prisoners died due to an “emerging health condition” in Roumieh Central Prison. Recent reports discussed the reason behind several deaths in the overcrowded central prison, the largest in Lebanon. A security source…

Manchester Evening News

Inside Greater Manchester's 'most desirable village' with secret underground tunnel and a 'haunted' pub

Haigh is home to an amazing adventure playground, former prison and 'psychic nights'

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The criminals who terrorised their partners and exes and were convicted in court this month

A number of defendants have been before the courts during the month of August

Asharq Al-Awsat

Wives, Widows of Syrian Detainees Lead Shackled Life

In the decade since Syria’s regime pronounced her jailed husband dead, Ramya Al-Sous was threatened by security forces, locked out of her spouse’s estate and forced to flee abroad. The mother of three, now a refugee living in Lebanon, was never told how her husband died and is unable to…

The Independent UK

Pa. man who attacked police on Jan. 6 gets 46-month sentence

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for attacking a police officer with a Donald Trump flag during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot

The Independent UK

Ex-US Air Force sergeant gets life in deputy's killing

A former Air Force sergeant who was linked to an extremist movement and in 2020 attacked law enforcement officials amid protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to life in prison in the killing of a Northern California sheriff’s sergeant

Chicago Sun-Times

Patrick Daley Thompson’s long rise and hard fall

Sneed: Former alderman, now imprisoned, for his whole life stuck to his ward, his roots, and — most of all — his family

Reason

Nearly 50,000 People Were Held in Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Last Year, Study Finds

More than 900 had been held in isolation for more than a decade.

Tribune News Service

ICE detainees say they were forced into labor in Georgia, file lawsuit

ATLANTA — A lawsuit filed against Georgia’s largest immigrant jail charges the private prison company that runs it broke federal anti-slavery laws by forcing detainees to work against their will.

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